David Oistrakh Plays Brahms’ Violin Sonata #2
Brahms composed his Sonata No.2 in A major Op.100 in 1886 during the first of three summer vacations in the village of Hofstetten in the Swiss mountains where the Aare flows into Lake Thun. In …
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Violinist Gil Shaham Plays the Concerto by Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber composed his violin concerto in 1939. The nature of its genesis, including external factors, led to the aspect that is the unusual: the seeming incongruity between the character of the first two movements …
Schubert’s Piano Trio Opus 99
Schubert began composing his Piano Trio in B-flat in 1827, the year before his death, and worked on it simultaneously with the song cycle Die Winterreise. Perhaps Schubert needed a lighter project to divert his …
Simone Dinnerstein Plays Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”
The origin of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is as follows: The ambassador to Saxony, often visited Leipzig. Among his servants there was a talented young man, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg – a harpsichordist (Cembalist) who was a …
The Piano trio by Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy’s trio is a full-fledged four movement work with a prevailing French style characterized by lyricism, clarity and gentle sensibility that is charming more than dramatic. The earlier trios of Cesar Franck and Saint-säens …